parismatch.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, parismatch.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

Panel
top 10k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.parismatch.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 b272a9fbc44a6ffd… · view as recorded
The * group
partial applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotblocksnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotblocksnamed in its own group
ChatGPT-Userblocksnamed in its own group
ClaudeBotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-Userblocksnamed in its own group
PerplexityBotblocksnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userpartialthrough the * group
Googlebotpartialthrough the * group
Google-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
CCBotblocksnamed in its own group
Bytespiderblocksnamed in its own group
Meta-ExternalAgentblocksnamed in its own group
Amazonbotblocksnamed in its own group
Amzn-SearchBotblocksnamed in its own group
Amzn-Userblocksnamed in its own group
anthropic-aiblocksnamed in its own group
Applebotblocksnamed in its own group
Brightbotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-Webblocksnamed in its own group
cohere-aiblocksnamed in its own group
cohere-training-data-crawlerblocksnamed in its own group
Crawlspaceblocksnamed in its own group
Diffbotblocksnamed in its own group
DuckAssistBotblocksnamed in its own group
FacebookBotblocksnamed in its own group
FriendlyCrawlerblocksnamed in its own group
GoogleOtherblocksnamed in its own group
GoogleOther-Imageblocksnamed in its own group
GoogleOther-Videoblocksnamed in its own group
iaskspiderblocksnamed in its own group
ICC-Crawlerblocksnamed in its own group
ImagesiftBotblocksnamed in its own group
ISSCyberRiskCrawlerblocksnamed in its own group
meta-externalfetcherblocksnamed in its own group
omgiliblocksnamed in its own group
omgilibotblocksnamed in its own group
PanguBotblocksnamed in its own group
PetalBotblocksnamed in its own group
Scrapyblocksnamed in its own group
SemrushBot-OCOBblocksnamed in its own group
SemrushBot-SWAblocksnamed in its own group
Timpibotblocksnamed in its own group
VelenPublicWebCrawlerblocksnamed in its own group
Webzio-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
YouBotblocksnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)no
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Sends noai / noimageai directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 5f94fb069d2c778e…

# www.robotstxt.org/
# www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

User-agent: *
Disallow: /recherche
Disallow: /var/storage/
Disallow: /var/si-blocks/
Disallow: /esi
Disallow: /Videos/m/
Disallow: /Videos/p/
Disallow: /Videos/e/


User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: Meltwater
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive-fr.com
Disallow: /

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-272026-10-27ok 200b272a9fbc44adiff with previous
2026-10-262026-10-26ok 2006e13e5ee00d9

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
2026-10-27robots.txt changed
2026-10-27now partly blocks AI2Bot (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks Ai2Bot-Dolma (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks Brightbot 1.0 (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks Googlebot (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks iaskspider/2.0 (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks img2dataset (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks Kangaroo Bot (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks Perplexity-User (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks Sidetrade indexer bot (was allow)
2026-10-27now partly blocks every agent without its own group (*) (was allow)

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.parismatch.comok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.parismatch.comok viewblocksallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.parismatch.comok viewblocksallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36www.parismatch.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of parismatch.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/parismatch.com